Re: [Groff] make fails creating U-<fontname>

[Denis M. Wilson]

On Fri, 25 May 2012 23:41:32 -0400
Peter Schaffter <address@hidden> wrote:

> Building groff from the latest sources, 'make' terminates with
> Error 2 after multiple warnings of the sort
> 
>   Warning: line 78: Failed to create groff font 'U-AB' by running
> afmtodit
> 
> I don't recall seeing this before.  What's
> up?

In the file groff-current/font/devpdf You need to replace line 68 or so
with your own path to the URW font directory, eg I used:

foundry|U|(gs):/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts

rerun configure, and you should be fine.  This should ideally be done
by configure itself.

Denis


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